Ecumenical Patriarch Akakios

Ecumenical Patriarch Akakios (Acacius) (427-489) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 471 to 489, succeeding Ecumenical Patriarch Gennadios I and preceding Ecumenical Patriarch Fravitas.

Biography
Akakios was elected as Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople after the death of Ecumenical Patriarch Gennadios in 471, and in 482 he succeeded in getting Emperor Zeno of Byzantium to issue the Henotikon. This condemned Nestorius (a predecessor of his) and Eutyches, accepted the twelve chapters of Cyril of Alexandria, and ignored the Council of Chalcedon. The Henotikon was ignored by Catholicism, leading to the Acacian Schism. He died in 489.